The National Universities
Commission (NUC) has announced the splitting of mass communication degree in
universities across the country.
Abubakar Rasheed, NUC’s executive
secretary, announced this on Thursday while briefing journalists in Abuja.
He stated that with the
development, there will be nothing like mass communication as a degree
programme in universities across the country.
According to him, what is
presently known as mass communication has been unbundled into seven different
degree programmes including media studies, public relations studies,
cinematography, among others.
Rasheed stated the measure has
become imperative to meet present demand and reality, adding the new directive
would take effect from 2020 admissions into universities.
He further explained that the
seven new programmes/departments, to be domiciled in a faculty/school/college
of communication and media studies are journalism and media studies, public
relations, advertising, broadcasting, film and multi-media studies, development
communication studies, information and media studies.
The recent move followed earlier
demand by professionals and stakeholders in the field in Nigeria, seeking the
unbundling of mass communication.
In the new communication
curricula presented to the NUC last year, professors, professionals, among
others had called for the phasing out of the extant single BSc/BA degree
progamme in mass communication in Nigerian universities.
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